Assessing Student Learning

Assessing student learning involves synthesizing the information that you have gathered about the student’s learning. Your assessment will focus on learning that is distinct from experience and is considered to be college-level.

Students may request that their prior learning assessment credits be awarded with one or more of these designations.

The student will request a specific title, number and type of credits in the iPLA request. These are based on consultation between the student and the faculty mentor and possibly on research about similar course titles or expectations within the field.

We do not require that students match their learning to an existing course, but courses can be used as a framework to determine the title and number of credits to request.

As the evaluator, you have the authority to determine whether the title, requested number of credits and the credit designations are supported by the student's learning description, supporting materials and the interview.